StoreJul 6, 2020
July's Web Gallery
Blesséd Are Those Who Remember: A Call to Cry, Feel and Mourn
"The Archive Project is emotionally and physically overwhelming. I liken it to visiting the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington, D.C., or to viewing the AIDS Memorial Quilt... There is reverence, some humor and maybe some surprising names of artists who are ostensibly prisoners or casualties of a war that one may not have necessarily known they were fighting..." Arnold J. Kemp, artist / educator
From the Blog
Jun 5, 2020
An Open Letter to Our Community
Visual AIDS responds to recent anti-Black violence and commits to producing a long-term plan for addressing racism and white supremacy within our organizational structures and practices. → Read MoreJun 5, 2020
Take action, donate, and learn what white supremacy looks like
In tandem with our open letter to the Visual AIDS community, we are sharing a list of resources, links, and actions in response to recent anti-Black police violence, as well as past Visual AIDS projects that have worked to address the lack of representation of Black artists in cultural histories of AIDS. → Read MoreMay 7, 2020
Thomas Sokolowski (1950–2020)
Visual AIDS mourns the loss of Thomas Sokolowski (1950–2020), one of our four founders. → Read MoreApr 30, 2020
Alexander McClelland on how to represent experiences of HIV criminalization
Blake Paskal interviews Alexander McClelland about his illustrated booklet "The Criminalization of HIV in Canada: Experiences of People Living with HIV." → Read MoreEvents Calendar
Founded in 1988, Visual AIDS is the only arts organization fully committed to raising AIDS awareness and creating dialogue around HIV issues today, by producing and presenting visual art projects, exhibitions, public forums and publications - while assisting artists living with HIV/AIDS. We are committed to preserving and honoring the work of artists with HIV/AIDS and the artistic contributions of the AIDS movement.